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duck stamp artists - ot, joyce

updated fri 27 jan 12

 

Janine in Tacoma on thu 26 jan 12


Joyce: That is a wonderful story as well! I would have loved to have me=
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you at MISSA, but will be sure to say hello at NCECA if you're there!

Thanks for looking at Ryan's artwork. His dad's responsible for the corn=
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painting titles.

A couple of other notable things in Ryan Perry's story... He uses airbru=
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in his backgrounds. The "establishment" told him that would never ever f=
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But the Smithsonian loved it, and a couple of the wildlife art publicatio=
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He also once painted a white tiger, and Sigfried & Roy, who have a cl=3D
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service, caught wind of him and invited him to their compound to paint th=
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At art fairs, because he is so shy around strangers, Ryan would just set =
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and paint, and before you knew it, he'd have a crowd watching and lining =
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to buy his work.

I bellieve that most of us involved in artistic pursuit have our champion=
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whether their support is small or huge - how many of us could persist wit=
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Take care!
Janine